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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820763803321

Autore

Wallerstein Immanuel Maurice <1930-2019>

Titolo

The Modern World-System . IV Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914 / / Immanuel Wallerstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-283-27774-3

9786613277749

0-520-94860-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (397 p.)

Collana

The modern world-system  Centrist liberalism triumphant, 1789/1914

Disciplina

320.5109/034

320.5109034

Soggetti

Liberalism

Capitalism

Ideology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface: On Writing about the Modern World-System -- 1. Centrist Liberalism as Ideology -- 2. Constructing the Liberal State, 1815-1830 -- 3. The Liberal State and Class Conflict, 1830-1875 -- 4. The Citizen in a Liberal State -- 5. Liberalism as Social Science -- 6. The Argument Restated -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This new volume encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolutionary era of 1789 to the First World War. In this crucial period, three great ideologies-conservatism, liberalism, and radicalism-emerged in response to the worldwide cultural transformation that came about when the French Revolution legitimized the sovereignty of the people. Wallerstein tells how capitalists, and Great Britain, brought relative order to the world and



how liberalism triumphed as the dominant ideology.